About 180 African migrants are believed to have died in the Red Sea in the last few days while trying to reach Yemen, a Somali diplomat in Yemen has said. Hussein Haji Ahmed said two boats had capsized off the Yemeni coast.
The FPSO Sevan Voyageur arrived at the Keppel Verolme Shipyard on December 16, where it will undergo topside hook-up and commissioning activities. FPSO Sevan Voyageur will be installed on the Shelley field in the central UK North Sea in 2008, under a 5 + 5 year contract with Oilexco North Sea Ltd.
The FPSO Sevan Hummingbird left the Keppel Verolme Shipyard on December 15, 2007, heading for the Chestnut field in the central UK North Sea, where it will be deployed under a 2 + 2.5 year contract with Venture Production Plc.
On Saturday 15 December 2007 Odense Steel Shipyard presented its latest newbuilding, an 11,000 TEU container vessel, for the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group. Lady Bond accompanied by her husband, Sir John Bond, Chairman of Vodafone Group Plc, honoured A.P. Moller – Maersk and the Yard by naming the newbu
Cargotec has discovered deficiencies related to welding in its Bromma container spreaders resulting in a need for a global inspection program and possible preventive repair in certain types of spreaders. The total number of spreaders that will be inspected is some 1,730 units. A one-off cost reserve
A new edition of the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s magazine Norwegian Continental Shelf is now out. The main topic in this edition is the challenges on the Norwegian continental shelf and how to ensure a positive development.
Total announces the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between Total E&P Indonesia and the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference. Under this agreement the Indonesia’s Agency of Research and Development for Energy and Mineral
On Monday 26th of November contracts were signed between Damen and AMS (Australia) Holdings Pty. Ltd. for the delivery of two Damen ATD 2412 Tugs. These tugs are currently under construction and are scheduled for delivery in June 2008.
On the 5th of December 2007 the naming of the Damen ASD Tug 2810 ‘Isola del Tino’ was performed by Mrs Rosella Caso, the daughter of the technical manager of Scafi, Mr Francesco Caso. The naming took place in the homeport of the vessel, La Spezia.
After the successful introduction of the Damen Fast Crew Supplier 3507, ‘Silni‘ a vessel type based on the revolutionary Axe Bow design, Brodospas ordered a sister vessel.
Four international consortiums, including one led by Vinci, Bouygues and Alstom, are in the running for a contract to build new locks for the Panama Canal as part of the canal widening project, the Panama Canal Authority announced Friday.
New Zealand’s super maxi Maximus, one of the favourites for line honours in this year’s Sydney to Hobart yacht race, has pulled out with a badly damaged keel. Yesterday morning when the boat was sailing from Auckland the crew called a PAN PAN, after a diver had gone overboard and found the complex k
Ship Finance International Limited, today announced the agreement to sell the offshore supply vessel Sea Trout to Deep Sea Supply Plc.. Reference is made to press releases of August 10, 2007 and November 7, 2007 regarding the acquisition of 5+2 offshore supply vessels from Deep Sea in combination wi
The surveillance aircraft LN-SFT, which has been made available to StatoilHydro by the Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket), made extensive flights over the areas affected by the oil spillage on December 12.
